Product Description: Summer reading loss accounts for roughly 80 percent of the rich/poor reading achievement gap. Yet far too little attention is given to this pressing problem. This timely volume now offers not only a comprehensive review of what is known about summer reading loss but also provides reliable interventions and guidance...read more

Product Description: Bringing together a wide range of research on reading disabilities, this comprehensive Handbook extends current discussion and thinking beyond a narrowly defined psychometric perspective. Emphasizing that learning to read proficiently is a long-term developmental process involving many interventions of various kinds, all keyed to individual developmental needs, it addresses traditional questions (What is the nature or causes of reading disabilities? How are reading disabilities assessed? How should reading disabilities be remediated? To what extent is remediation possible?) but from multiple or alternative perspectives...read more

Provides assessment tools and guidance on using test results to provide differentiated literacy instruction based on each student's strengths.

Product Description: Book by McGill-Franzen, Anne

The traditional children's story of the gingerbread man is told in attractive pictures followed by activities involving sounds, shapes, actions, animal behavior, and games

The ever-popular tale of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' is told in pictures and specially designed activities lead children to the recognition of sounds, shapes, sizes, and bear behavior

A retelling of the traditional nursery tale with accompanying activities designed to reinforce reading skills.